Fate was on John Rahm's side as he won the U.S. Open on Fathers Day
(Photo via Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press)
We got a treat on Fathers Day with the U.S. Open coming down to the wire. It seemed like there was going to be a long jam of names at the top of the leaderboard, but by the end it came down to two people: Jon Rahm and Louis Oosthuizen. Rahm started three shots back of Oosthuizen at the start of the day, so in order to win, he had to have a crazy good round because Torrey Pines was playing difficult the entire week (as it should because it’s the U.S. Open). Rahm came through with birdies on the 17th and 18th hole shooting four under par and winning by one as Oosthuizen who was leading at the start of the day had a costly bogey on the 17th hole and ended up shooting even par on the day and losing by one shot to Rahm.
On one hand, you have to feel for Oosthuizen. He’s only won one major (2010 British Open) and has top 10 finishes in nine majors with seven of those being top three. He’s been in contention several times, but has only been able to pull off the one major win.
On the other hand, golf fans could have seen Rahm winning this tournament from a mile away. A few weeks prior to the U.S. Open, Rahm had a six shot lead going into the final round of the Memorial Tournament. He didn’t get the chance to play in the final round because he got the Coronavirus, so he was forced to withdraw. He was pretty much guaranteed to win unless he had an epic collapse, so it had the feeling that Rahm would be a favorite to win the U.S. Open. He was playing at a course in Torrey Pines where he won his first career PGA Tour event and he proposed to his wife. It had all the makings of a storybook ending, which we got yesterday.
Rahm is now the #1 player in the world and will have his chance to win his second career major at Royal St George’s Golf Club where the British Open will be taking place from July 15th-July 18th.